RTÉ News moves to electronic news gathering switching from using film cameras for television to using video.
By 1985, RTÉ had almost completed replacing the film cameras used by news crews with video cameras. Film had been the main media for news coverage since RTÉ began broadcasting in 1961. ENG would allow more flexibility in reporting and stories could be brought to air as they happened.
Electronic News Gathering equipment or ENG, new technology used by RTÉ had a dramatic baptism in Cork.
This report features Gerry Murray, Wesley Boyd, Jim Eccles and Josie McGarrigle as well as other members of RTÉ staff from the regional offices.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 26 March 1985. The reporters are Tommie Gorman and Jim Fahy.
